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Introducing Upstream Fellow, Andres Perez. The artist has spent his time photographing Richard DeVries, an Arboretum Landscape Gardener. He manages maple syrup production at the Arboretum, including about 300 tress with tubing systems that use gravity to draw the sap from the tress. DeVries cares and celebrates Minnesota by tending to the trails and collecting sap from maple trees, which can be boiled down to make syrup…#goupstream #mnupstream #mnarboretum #mnmaplesyrup #mnwinter — from Instagram

Introducing Upstream Fellow, Andres Perez. The artist has spent his time photographing Richard DeVries, an Arboretum Landscape Gardener. He manages maple syrup production at the Arboretum, including about 300 tress with tubing systems that use gravity to draw the sap from the tress. DeVries cares and celebrates Minnesota by tending to the trails and collecting sap from maple trees, which can be boiled down to make syrup...#goupstream #mnupstream #mnarboretum #mnmaplesyrup #mnwinter — from Instagram

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